Job, Chapter 12:
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Verses from Job, Chapter 12 of the book of Job in the Bible.
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- 1. Then Job replied:
- 2. “Surely you are the people, and wisdom will die with you!
- 3. But I also have understanding, I am not inferior to you. Who does not know these things?
- 4. “I have become a byword among my friends, whoever calls on God and is answered. The righteous and blameless become a laughingstock.
- 5. He who is at peace despises misfortune, for it is destined for wavering feet.
- 6. The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are safe, those who carry gods in their hands.
- 7. “Ask the animals, and they will teach you; the birds of the air, and they will tell you.
- 8. Speak to the earth, and it will instruct you; the fish of the sea will speak to you.
- 9. Who among them all does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?
- 10. In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of every human being.
- 11. Does not the ear distinguish words as the palate distinguishes food?
- 12. Does wisdom lie with the elderly? Does understanding come with age?
- 13. “With God are wisdom and might; counsel and understanding belong to him.
- 14. What he destroys cannot be rebuilt; what he imprisons cannot be freed.
- 15. If he withholds the waters, there will be drought; if he releases them, they devastate the land.
- 16. Power and wisdom belong to him; both the deceived and the deceiver are his.
- 17. He takes away counselors without honor and makes foolish judges.
- 18. He looses the belts of kings and binds them with ropes.
- 19. He despoils the priests and overthrows the mighty.
- 20. He frustrates trusted counselors and deprives elders of understanding.
- 21. He pours contempt on the noble and weakens the strength of the mighty.
- 22. He reveals deep things and brings darkness to light.
- 23. He exalts the nations and destroys them; he expands the nations and scatters them.
- 24. He takes away the understanding of the leaders of the earth and makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.
- 25. They grope in darkness without light; he makes them stagger like drunkards.
